The Walk: Starts with a good walkway. Then on residential roads without footpaths.
Distance: 2.0 km
Time: 35 minutes
Getting there: Westbus routes 811, 813 and 815 run from Parramatta and Merrylands to Pemulwuy Marketplace. Route 830 runs along Greystanes Road from Cabramatta and Blacktown and also passes near to the end of this walk at Prospect Hotel. However this last service is very infrequent on weekends and public holidays.
Car parking: in Driftway Drive near the start or in the car park of Pemulwuy Marketplace (limit 3 hours).

Latest News: This route has been rewritten, as of January 2011, to use Wombat Strret the new connection from the Lakeside housing development to Clunies Ross Street. The route no longer climbs any of the Prospect Hill summits due to access issues. These are covered in separate walks under Prospect Lookout and Greystanes Hill.

This section of the Circular Walk starts at the roundabout where Butu Wargun Drive meets Driftway Drive. This is the hub of the new suburb of Pemulwuy. The noticeboard by the roundabout has the ridge-line green area labelled "Marrong Reserve - Walkway and Lookouts" but there are still access issues. If you want to try an alternative route to Prospect Hotel you could try Route A under the Lookout walk. This is also the starting point for the walk to the top of Greystanes Hill.

To start this section of the Circular Walk, cross over Butu Wargun Drive from the notice board to the three tall metal-framed statues. Walk down the concrete stairway (or the grass slope) to the information plaque below. Walk past the barbecue shelter and join the walkway that passes alongside the creek and Miles Crescent. Shortly it joins Driftway Drive. You are now walking along one of the driftways which were between the original grants made to emancipated convicts in 1791. The summit known as Prospect Lookout can be seen from time to time through the trees on your left. The land from here to the summit was granted to George Lisk in 1791. On its right was the grant of William Butler. Information plaques are provided at intervals along this walkway.

After passing Lisk Road and then Butler Road on your right, look for a walkway leading off to your left over the causeway across the Retention Lake created when the CSIRO owned the land. Before following this it's worth continuing a few metres along the main walkway to a barbecue site where an observation platform enables you to view the bird life of the lake. Return to follow the side walkway to a roundabout on Nijong Drive. Turn right along Nijong Drive and take the second left turn to follow Wombat Street uphill. (The street may not yet have a name plate.)

Follow Wombat Street to the roundabout on Clunies Ross Street. The route now turns right, but detour just a few steps to the left and you may see the edge of an old quarry. (You may need to wade through long grass to the fence.) This small quarry face runs back across the hillside and is the earliest quarry on Prospect Hill, thought to have been used by the first European settlers here. Later it became known as Jack Hun's Quarry, though who Jack Hun was I don't know. Carry on down Clunies Ross Street. At the entrance to the Australia Post depot on the right, you will see a disused road going off to the right to end at the motorway. This is all that remains of Old Quarry Road. On the left of it (Clunies Ross Street is relatively modern) was a race course known as the Four Furlong Track (Bloxham 2002).

Later, but also at the entrance to the Australia Post depot on the right, a railway crossed more or less at right angles to the present road. It was built to link Prospect Quarry to the main line at Toongabbie Station and curved round to run down the line of the present Toongabbie Road. After crossing the bridge over the M4 Motorway turn left at the Great Western Highway and you will see the Prospect Hotel-Motel.

This is end of the East Section of the Circular Walk.

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